British SF Association Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Eastercon,
Birmingham :
April 3, 2026
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April 6, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Eligibility Year: 2025
Novel
- Edge of Oblivion, Kirk Weddell (Troubador)
- A Granite Silence, Nina Allan (Riverrun)
- Project Hanuman, Stewart Hotston (Angry Robot)
- The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris)
- When There Are Wolves Again, E. J. Swift (Arcadia)
Shorter Fiction (novelette Or Novella)
- “The Apologists”, Tade Thompson (Clarkesworld Nov 2025)
- “The Art of Time Travel”, Teika Marija Smits (One Mission Times)
- Cities Are Forests Waiting to Happen, Cécile Cristofari (Newcon)
- “Descent”, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld May 2025)
- The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Arcadia)
Short Fiction
- “25 Peppercorns”, Emma Burnett (Mythaxis Fall 2025)
- “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E. M. Faulds (PodCastle 29 Jul 2025)
- “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2025)
- “Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers”, A. J. Van Belle (Augur 8.2)
- “One Step at a Time”, Rick Danforth (Vivid Worlds)
Translated Short Fiction
- “Beyond Everything”, Wang Yanzhong, translated by Stella Jiayue-Zhu (Clarkesworld Jan 2025)
- “Bodyhoppers”, Rocio Vega, translated by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld Feb 2025)
- “Elasticity”, Andrés González Galante, translated by Lucy Corrie-Tannen (Samovar 27 Oct 2025)
- “Liecraft”, Anita Moskat, translated by Austin Wagner (Apex 7 Oct 2025)
- “Pollen”, Anna Burdenko, translated by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld Mar 2025)
- “Still Water”, Zhang Ran, translated by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Apr 2025)
- “Zephyr”, Sofia Rhei, translated by Marian Womack (Samovar 28 Apr 2925)
Fiction For Younger Readers
- Doctor Who: Lux, James Goss (Penguin)
- Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, Una McCormack (Target)
- “The Ghost Merchant”, Rick Danforth (The Colored Lens Spr 2025)
- The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel, J. Dianne Dotson (Android)
- Secrets of the First School, T. L. Huchu (Tor)
- Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Collection Or Anthology
- The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, André M. Carrington, ed. (Luna Press)
- Black Friday, Cheryl S. Ntumy (Flame Tree)
- Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson (NewCon)
- Creative Futures: Beyond and Within, Allen Stroud, ed. (Flame Tree)
- Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
- Who Will You Save?, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
Nonfiction (long)
- Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, Paul Kincaid (Briardene)
- Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Colour Re-imagining a Genre, Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)
- Fantasy: A Short History, Adam Roberts (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859-1914, Kate Holterhoff (Ohio University Press)
- That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism and the American Witch Film, Payton McCarty-Simas (Luna Press)
- Writing the Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
Nonfiction (short)
- “Comparing Colonialisms in Dan Simmons’ novel The Terror and its AMC Adaptation”, Fiona Moore (Foundation 1 Apr 2025)
- “The Legacy of Discworld”, Rick Danforth (The British Fantasy Society)
- Review of When There Are Wolves Again, Paul March Russell (Strange Horizons 6 Oct 2025)
- “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 24 Mar 2025)
- “When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident”, Grigory Lukin (self-published)
Artwork
- Jenni Coutts for Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)
- Nick Wells for The Fractal Series (Flame Tree)
- Tziano Zhou for “Highway Above the Clouds” (self-published)
- Jenni Coutts for “Mushroom Fairy” (self-published)
- Spencer Fuller for The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Arcadia)
- Sam Gretton for The Salt Oracle (Solaris)
Audio Fiction
- The Dex Legacy Series 3, Emily Inkpen (Alternative Stories)
- Five Finger Stories, Rick Danforth (Tall Tale TV)
- Just Let Me Help, Tara Campbell (Space Cowboy)
- Unicorn Spotting, Rick Danforth (The Tiny Bookcase)
- Wasteland: A Dex Legacy Story, Emily Inkpen (Alternative Stories)
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